Redtail Rise the promise of youth

wolverine protects. bobcat wanders.

no sign of the latter. augur conveyed this in the silent voice of his natal family, small whines and licks and the gesture of pelt pressed to pelt. 

he looked toward the horizon now, then back to new snow. bobcat would return. he would expect it.

augur settled close, chuffing a dragonic breath of air over both the tiny heads. he saw new snow meant to give them meat, and his heart thumped in excitement to observe their impossible smallness and this new milestone.